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The OSV Papal Visit News Team will be adding stories here throughout the pope's visit: John Norton, OSV Newsweekly Editor; Greg Erlandson, OSV Publisher; Monsignor Owen Campion, OSV Associate Publisher and The Priest Editor; Mary DeTurris Poust, OSV contributing editor; Russell Shaw, OSV contributing editor; Paul Thigpen, The Catholic Answer Editor; Kimberly Heatherington, OSV writer; Dave Dziena, OSV writer; and Gloria Fuzia, OSV writer.
By John Norton
NEW YORK CITY — Pope Benedict XVI closed his six-day visit to the United States with a challenge to Catholics to “hasten the coming of God’s kingdom in this land” through prayer, integrity of life and active participation in civil society. Read the entire story here»
By Mary DeTurris Poust
YONKERS, N.Y. — Pope Benedict XVI was like a proud and encouraging grandfather when he spoke to some 20,000 young people and hundreds of seminarians at a youth rally at St. Joseph’s Seminary Saturday. He offered words of support, shared stories of his own childhood under a “sinister regime,” and urged the enthusiastic youths to make something special of their lives, to give back to God and others, and to be wary of a world that looks for easy answers and judges success on material terms. Read the entire article here»
By John NortonNEW YORK — Calling polarization within the Church one of “great disappointments” after the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI asked Catholic Americans to outdo each other in seeking inner reconciliation, forgiveness, humility and purity of heart. Read the article here»
NEW YORK CITY — Pope Benedict XVI outlined a vision of a stronger role for the United Nations based on “the unity of the human family and the innate dignity of every man and woman.”
In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City Friday morning, the pope said that religions are a force for peace by promoting coexistence and reconciliation, but that it was better when “the religious sphere is kept separate from political action.” Read it here»
by John Norton
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pope Benedict XVI gave a strong plug for Catholic education in the United States, calling it integral to the mission of the Church and saying its “long-term sustainability must be assured.”
In a widely anticipated speech Thursday to Catholic university presidents and diocesan directors of education, the pope said the measure of a school’s Catholic identity is not the orthodoxy of its coursework or the percentage of Catholics in the student body or faculty, but whether it “reverberates within the ecclesial life of faith.” Read it here»
By Kimberley Heatherington
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Preaching at his first papal Mass in the United States, Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion to urge Catholic Americans to help ease the pain of the sexual abuse crisis by fostering “healing and reconciliation” while at the same time supporting and loving their priests. Read it here»
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Meeting with America’s 350 Catholic bishops in the crypt of the national shrine, Pope Benedict XVI called the clerical sex abuse scandal a source of “deep shame” that, in the words of the bishops’ conference president, had been “sometimes very badly handled.” Read it here»
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By Kimberley Heatherington and John NortonANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — About 10 minutes ahead of schedule, Pope Benedict XVI touched down at an Air Force base outside Washington, D.C., this afternoon at the beginning of his first pastoral visit to the United States, hours after urging healing for a Church suffering from the aftereffects of the clerical sex abuse crisis. Read the story here»
The media frenzy surrounding Pope Benedict’s visit to the United States is being driven in part by a newcomer on the media block: bloggers. For the first time in history, a U.S. papal visit is being covered around the clock by bloggers of all stripes – Catholic and secular, independent and staff, spiritually focused and news focused – and they are doing what they do best, bringing online readers information almost as fast as it happens. Read the story here»
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